If anything goes wrong on the moon they have to have diversity so they can blame them when it blows up, runs out of air, finds itself in a useless orbit because the engine ran for too long etc.
But what difference does the moon make to a hungry child?
Happily I am old enough to have seen him several times live - and once at a luggage carousel 😊. GSH wrote a lot excellent poems and songs…..1st line of ‘B-movie’ says it all….
I always think of Gil every time I think about Bush the elder because I hear “George Papa Doc Bush.” He had a great way with epithets. And American leaders deserved every one of them and they still do.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WON'T TAKE TIME TO READ THIS, AND IF THEY DO HALF OF 'EM WON'T UNDERSTAND IT.. BUT MAYBE LISTENING TO IT THEY WILL.. SO HERE YOU GO😜 https://youtu.be/otwkXZ0SmTs?si=HgQV1YbjkNenF_wt
Although I understand the sentiment, this should not be an either/or situation : we can develop technologies, explore space and make sure everyone has the basics in life.
It is the belief that you can't from the down trodden and the "trodders", alike, that is the problem!
It's about focus. A certain subset of people (those in power now) will always look to enrich themselves and toward conquest at the expense of the average person.
Ideally, you're right. But ideals are just ideas that haven't been proven unattainable yet.
I'm not talking about some idealistic utopia, I'm just talking about govs using the power they have to spend in the economy. But I agree those in power benefit from the bogeyman stories that are told about gov spending being bad!
Great piece. Today it could be read as a comment on the debate over funding NIH. I don’t think money now being cut from government programs is going to go to struggling Americans though.
This hit me hard back when I first saw it, then heard it read, years ago, and still hits hard.
So damn true. Then, before then, after then, and now.
Shouldn't be. Should never have been.
This is not the world I would have made.
It is the world I try to change.
Went to see Gil Scott back in the 80's at the Bearsville Theater on a snowy night with about 50 other people. What an experience...one of my personal heroes...
I’m at a point in my life , like Luigi must have been when I don’t see an alternative besides violence, mayhem and death to the oppressors. Whitey on the moon is again a reality and we will never run fast or far enough to get away from the Rats.
Gil was great!!! "LIVIN IN THE BOTTLE" was classic. And...." what was Nixon's excuse? Phlebitis? Rats bite us,no pardon in the ghetto...." All is Calm Along the White Sands of San Clemente
How do we continue to fund anything as even one child goes hungry, is unhoused, cannot read?
I love NASA, but if it was them or children, I could live with never seeing another rocket.
Gil sat across in the green room at S.O.B.'s a long gone New York club where women in long skirts twirled like high livin' Deadheads. Frank sat to my right, Charli Persip to my left. Gil took a hit and said, "I don't know how the fuck I can keep doing this..." Tirade over, he did two flawless shows.
So I guess the fact that it was the efforts of many black and white people, and that ALL the devices you're using today (including the one you're using you read this) are the result of the moon effort, mean nothing?
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But what difference does the moon make to a hungry child?
https://youtu.be/otwkXZ0SmTs?si=HgQV1YbjkNenF_wt
and now WE will all suffer because the ultimate whitey wants to conquer fucking MARS
It is the belief that you can't from the down trodden and the "trodders", alike, that is the problem!
Ideally, you're right. But ideals are just ideas that haven't been proven unattainable yet.
So damn true. Then, before then, after then, and now.
Shouldn't be. Should never have been.
This is not the world I would have made.
It is the world I try to change.
Televised !
I love NASA, but if it was them or children, I could live with never seeing another rocket.
A sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it
And yet we're sending people to the moon
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
The problem isn't NASA. It's the much bigger tax cuts for the rich and defense spending.
..yes, orbiters.
the space travelers,
the settlers.
PostScript
1. Orbiter station technology
2. Space teamsters
3. Colonial space settlers
i. Jaeger industries
ii. pods:
horticulture, farms and civil quarters
iii. authority, faith and banking
Ok. Smdh.